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...Paris the plastic bombs went off all week long. One exploded at the house of Culture Minister André Malraux, but the famed author of Man's Fate was not at home. The detonation drove 300 splinters of glass into the face and body of four-year-old Delphine Renard, whose engineer father occupied the ground floor. Doctors last week operated in the hope of saving her sight...
...Paris, the S.A.O. struck a deadly retaliatory blow by exploding a 22-lb. plastic bomb in an inner courtyard of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, killing a mail clerk and wounding ten bystanders. During a single day, S.A.O. bombs were detonated at the homes of a distinguished cross section of Paris intellectuals, including TV Commentator Michel Droit, Gaullist Senator Louis Vigier, and Hubert Beuve-Méry, owner of Le Monde. With scathing contempt, Beuve-Méry accused the S.A.O. of setting off its bombs at a time "when the men supposed to be the targets are not usually...
...despair was intensified by the state of Müller's health. Since the age of 13 he had suffered from attacks of rheumatic fever. In 1954 a plastic valve was inserted into his heart to replace a damaged natural valve. The new valve made a ticking noise with every heartbeat, a cruel reminder that the operation had been only partially successful and that time was running out. Four years later, having worked feverishly to the end, Jan Müller was dead...
...money in the chemical industry is to develop some far-out fiber, plastic or chemical and then to build a fence of patents around it. Example: nylon. At a cost of $27 million, Du Pont developed nylon in the 1930s; for 15 years until its patent expired, Du Pont got about one-third of its profits from nylon...
Last week in Delaware's U.S. District Court, Du Pont was fighting to protect its far vaster investment ($50 million) in another product, Delrin, a remarkably hard and versatile plastic that, since it was introduced in 1960. has begun to replace zinc, aluminum and steel in products ranging from water pumps to auto dashboards and clothespins. The defendant in Du Pont's patent infringement suit is Celanese Corp, of America, which recently began to market a plastic called Celcon (pronounced "Sell-con"). Both are acetal polymers and derive from formaldehyde. Both have a high resistance to chemicals, abrasion...